Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is convinced that the media, Facebook, and the Government are in cahoots to steal money from you and start wars. (Source: Daily Mail)

Assange is convinced that Facebook is violating its users trust, passing a wealth of spy information to the U.S. government. He produced no documents to support his position, though. (Source: AP Photo)

Julian Assange still has plenty to say and most of it involves some sort of conspiracy

Now that he's in the spotlight, he's relishing the attention and opportunity to
air his thoughts on technology and what he perceives as a vast international
conspiracy, headed by the United States.

In an interview with Russia Today,
Russia's first all-digital TV network, Mr. Assange claims that when it comes to
the U.S., "We only released secret, classified, confidential material. We
didn’t have any top secret cables. The really embarrassing stuff, the really
serious stuff wasn’t in our collection to release. But it is still out there."

Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that
has ever been invented. Here we have the world’s most comprehensive database
about people, their relationships, their names, their addresses, their
locations and the communications with each other, their relatives, all sitting
within the United States, all accessible to US intelligence. Facebook, Google,
Yahoo – all these major US organizations have built-in interfaces for US
intelligence. It’s not a matter of serving a subpoena. They have an interface
that they have developed for US intelligence to use.

Now, is it the case that Facebook is actually run by US intelligence? No, it’s
not like that. It’s simply that US intelligence is able to bring to bear legal
and political pressure on them. And it’s costly for them to hand out records
one by one, so they have automated the process. Everyone should understand that
when they add their friends to Facebook, they are doing free work for United
States intelligence agencies in building this database for them.

On the topic of Libya Mr. Assange seems to have mixed thoughts, first
complaining of French, U.S., and British involvement, stating, "When
outside forces from very, very far-flung countries start to take an aggressive
role in a regional affair, then we have to look a bit more and say that what is
going on is not normal. So, what’s happening in Libya, for example, is not
normal."

He then turns around and complains that Britain is doing wrong by harboring the sons of
controversial leader Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, stating, "It’s an
example of true liberalism in the United Kingdom: everyone come here, and we’ll
protect you. On the other hand, there does seem to be a disconnect. Is it
really supporting free-speech activists like me who come to the UK? But, on the
other hand, it is supporting people like sons of Gaddafi."

He also complains about what he says is a profit-driven conspiracy at The
New York Times and his former ally turned foe, British newspaper Guardian.
He explains:

What they have done with this cable-cooking in this incredible
over-redaction of cables is they have pushed the right of the people to know to
the very, very edge. And what they are concerned about is any possible attack
on them.

But we have seen this sort of abuse of the material that we have provided
several times. The Guardian is the worst offender, but we saw it also by The
New York Times. The New York Times redacted a 62-page cable down to two
paragraphs. And this is completely against the agreement that we originally set
up with them on November 1, 2010. That agreement was that the only redactions
that should take place are to protect people's lives. There should be no other
redaction, not to protect reputation, not to protect The Guardian's profits,
but only to protect lives.

After a discussion of his possible extradition to Sweden to face sex crimes charges, and the possible effort by the U.S. to extradite him
to face trial on some sort of espionage charge, Mr. Assange turns back to his
old talking point -- conspiracy. He concludes:

One of the hopeful things that I’ve discovered is that nearly
every war that has started in the past 50 years has been a result of media
lies. The media could've stopped it if they had searched deep enough; if they
hadn't reprinted government propaganda they could've stopped it. But what does
that mean? Well, that means that basically populations don't like wars, and
populations have to be fooled into wars. Populations don't willingly, with open
eyes, go into a war. So if we have a good media environment, then we also have
a peaceful environment.

Let's just hope Facebook and the war-mongering media don't join forces.
Or then Mr. Assange might really lose some sleep.

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Why don't you focus on all of the other countries that oppress human rights, kill or incarcerate their own citizens without due process, and the like? Where are the Wikileaks documents on the real oppressive regimes in countries where people can't even put food on the table? This entire Wikileaks global 'whine' is a big, fat joke.

probably something todo with the other countries not running around picking wars with everyone and breaking every law they come across in the name of "freedom"..America is the biggest terrorist organisation in the world so far a i'm concerned.

His point might be that the US goes around the world pointing it's finger at other countries, invoking sanctions on them, invading them, "liberating" them and such like, seemingly claiming that it itself is whiter that white and that the whole world would be better if everyone was as free as the the US citizen. Making all their warmongering justifiable as they have the moral high ground, which isn't really all that true.

We are all pretty aware of how bad other governments are, and most people in the west might be a bit cynical about their governments, but it's not like our governments are going to point all this stuff out themselves.

From the US to North Korea, they're all up to the same old that has been going on forever. People in power will always end up being twisted by it to some extent and it might not do us any harm to have someone pointing out what is going on within our own borders, from time to time.

We have things pretty good in the west, don;t get me wrong, but it's far from perfect. Yes, other places are worse, but it doesn't mean that things are all rosey here and can't be improved.

I'm not saying its the best but they do release the info. And I think you're buying into Media and Government propaganda with demonizing them. I honestly don't trust any Organized organization. Not one has ever existed without some type of ulterior motive.

quote: We have things pretty good in the west, don;t get me wrong, but it's far from perfect. Yes, other places are worse, but it doesn't mean that things are all rosey here and can't be improved.

Pretty good? don't get out of your country much do you? even the poorest among us in the west live like kings compared to 90% of the rest of the world. Typical college educated idiot with no clue on how the world works.

So how exactly did your college derived art degree prepare you for the "real world" ? I run across ignorant college types almost daily expecting money to fall from the sky. case in point my neighbor(nice guy) has a masters in architecture and works at a brewery lugging cases of beer...wondering why an architecture firm won’t hire him and make his dream come true of creating vertical communal housing ala hippie commune style. He suspects it’s the evil corporation’s corperating! that keeps him from being hired. It couldn’t be the fact that he is a white dude with dreadlocks right out of college in a market saturated with architects coupled with local governments and major corporations made so broke by the very same Marxist ideas they spew on college campuses(and repeated by him BTW); the same fail boat ideology implemented by the current administration that they(Corporations and Local government) can’t afford to build buildings. College teaches you how to perform well in college and does nothing to prepare you for the world.

I'm not sure if you are being serious. Or that you really think that I have an art degree, and that you know this to be true because you are a mentalist who can "read" people and know all about them and their life from a single comments on web site.

I am also wondering how you are so sure that people who a have degree know less about the world than people without them, seeing as almost everyone in our governments is educated to at least degree level, as are most people in the higher levels of the corporate world, with the odd exception.

Do you really believe that you people who have "street smartz" rather than a degree (assuming that these 2 groups are mutually exclusive), or those with a bad case of inverse snobbery or those who have a very large chip on their shoulder (as you seem to) makes them right and that they are the only people who can can see the truth?

As for your rant about the architect. It's sad, but people make all sorts of decisions in their lives, and at least he is working for a living. Your argument might make sense if everyone who doesn't have a degree is succeeding like Donald Trump, but that's not the case. The world isn't that simple.

Anyway, at least he isn't wasting his life away arguing on this website, so he's (perhaps) got something over the both of us :o)